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Monday, November 25, 2024

Don’t get spiked

There’s been a shocking increase of drinks being spiked in pubs & nightclubs recently, leaving some people hospitalised with serious side effects and others in other dangerous situations. It’s important to share to spot the signs that your drink may have been spiked. Other advice being given from police forces &...
Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the “fact checking” being undertaken by third party providers on behalf of Facebook/Meta. In September, a former employee...
An ICU doctor has explained why people should get vaccinated by rebutting the typical hesitancy arguments. Asked by Sky News' Kay Burley what he would say to people who are still reluctant to get their jabs, Dr Ed Patrick, a COVID-19 intensive care unit anaesthetist rebutted the typical hesitancy arguments around not...
Dearest Arthur A lovely smile, bright, intuitive, exuding kindness that was not returned, Sleep wellTheresa   I have reflected, with a heavy heart and a sense of deep grief and horror on Arthur’s tragic and appalling murder, and what it means for all of us. Many colleagues within and beyond my own teams...
A clip of cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra on GB News talking about claims linking the Covid vaccines to heart attacks has been viewed over two million times on Twitter. But the research he cites as evidence has serious flaws. Dr Malhotra failed to mention that the journal which published an...
"Torches of Freedom" was a phrase used to encourage women's smoking by exploiting women's aspirations for a better life during the early twentieth century first-wave feminism in the United States. Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men. The term was first used by psychoanalyst A. A. Brill when describing the natural desire...
A South African doctor who was one of the first to suspect a different coronavirus strain has said that symptoms of the Omicron variant appear to be mild and could be treated at home. Dr Angelique Coetzee, a private practitioner and chair of South African Medical Association, told Reuters that...
Officers investigating a serious road traffic collision north of Dorchester are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward. At approximately 9.15pm on Monday 22 November 2021, Dorset Police was called to attend a road traffic collision on the A37 Yeovil Road at Melbury Osmond. The collision involved two...
Today at No.10 I presented an “invoice” for the PM’s hospital treatment. Soon we could all be seeing invoices like this. The Health & Care Bill will give commissioning power to big US companies & drive health rationing to force people into Private health care. (Barry Gardiner) Will the Bill lead...
£3.45 million funding boost for Carers Trust to support UK’s most vulnerable unpaid carersCarers Trust leads new programme to support over 13,500 carers worst affected by pandemic Carers Trust is pleased to announce it is working with 25 programme partners to use £3.45 million of funding to boost support for over...